Thank you ((Hankster)) and ((Leed)). I went to my family doctor this morning - I've been going to her for 20 yrs and she's very good. When I was getting ready, I started coughing with no warning and it was non stop.....to the point where I could hardly take a breath. It also made me gag twice and luckily I didn't. With my pneumonia experience, I've never coughed that hard.

My doctor listened to my breathing and she could hear sounds. She put me on 10 days antibiotics and nose spray for the sinus. It makes sense to me if someone has sounds deep in the lung.....they should be on antibiotics. I didn't trust the doctor yesterday. I called the Xray clinic to make sure they send my doctor a copy of the report. The clinic yesterday gave them back to the Xray place. I'll be interested to see if that radiologist agrees its pleurisy and I'll let you know when I find out. I'm sorry you had this Leed and went through so much pain.